An Account of the Earthquake at Lisbon, 31st March 1761: In a Letter from Thence, Dated the 2d April 1761, to Joseph Salvador, Esq; F. R. S.

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There remains alive,

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N° of houfes, or families 235
Houses paying window tax 77
N a of acres there is on wafte 1700

N° of perfons in 1755 1049

Ditto 1760 1048

Void houfes 4

Apoplexy 2

Cancer 2

Childbed 4

Gh incough 9

Cholic 1

Confumptioa, 47

Convulfions 9

Dropfy 10

Fever 39

Jaundice 3

Impoftume 2

Meazles 4

Palfey 1

Quinfy 1

Small-pox 33

Stone 1

Teeth 1

XXVI. An Account of the Earthquake at
Lifbon, 3 ift March 1761: In a Letter
from thence , dated the 2d April 1761, to
Jofeph Salvador, Efq\ F. R. S*

Read April 23,/ 1 |“^HE earthquake happened the 31ft
1761. mon th, precifely at twelve

o’clock, and lafted full five minutes, with a fmart
and equal vibration. It exceeded all the others, ex¬
cept that of the firft November 1755. Thank God,
it was attended with no other confequences, but that
of alarming the inhabitants, throwing down fome
ruins, and rending fome houfes. About an hour
and a quarter afterwards, the fea began to flow and
ebb, about eight fleet perpendicular, every fix mi¬
nutes, and continued till night. Some fmall Ihocks
were felt before and fince, but of no moment$

every

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every body feems at eafe, and things go on in their
ufual channel.

Mr. Salvador has received many other letters, which
feverally confirm thefe particulars.

XXVII. Another Account of the fame Earth¬
quake: In a Letter from Mr. Molloy,
dated there April 3, 1761, to Keane
Fitzgerald, Efq\ F. R. S.

Read April 23, the 31ft ult. at twelve o’clock,

17(31 ' we had a moft dreadful violent

fhock of an earthquake, that held conftant for five
minutes, as near as I can judge. I was up two pair
of flairs, at a friend’s houfe, when it began, and ex¬
pected to have been buried in the ruins. The fhock,
as it appeared to me, feemed to fpring from the
bowels of the earth, and the motion to be direCtly
up and down. It is the general opinion, that if it
had run from weft to eafl, or from any quarter of
the globe to the other, as the great one the firlt of
November 1755 did, there would not have been a
houfe left flanding in this unfortunate place, as all
the gentlemen that refide here fay, it was more fevere
and conftant for the time than the former. Many
buildings have tumbled down, but few people were
killed j fome have died through fear, and about
270 felons, in the confufion it occafioned, got out
of gaol, who, it is feared, will commit great ex-
cefles, before they are taken again. Orders were
ifliied by S. J. de Carvalho, that, on pain of death, no

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